If silent pictures were still the only style of film making, how would they look today? What would Charlie Chaplin's 'Tramp' look like? Would Buster Keaton's love story always involve a man and a woman? SILENT CITY is a modern day silent film that weaves together a series of vignettes depicting life in New York City. Illustrating change in society since the original silent film era, as well as the diversity of the Big Apple.
Woman
Butcher
Pediatrician
Passerby
Little Girl
Mother
Newborn
Rich Lady
0.0Four strangers struggle to figure out why they matched on Icebreaker, a friend-finding app.
3.1Samantha, Lydia, Isabella, and Lisa. These four young women are about to learn that humanity is just an irrelevant flame burning nowhere in the vastness of space. Their dreams will be shattered and one man will marvel at the evil he has committed.
Animation featuring the characters Bud and Susie.
4.7Snub, the delivery man, and his assistant, Sunny, are returning from a delivery when they almost run over a lost woman. After she asks for directions, they accompany the woman to a dance school, where Snub is mistaken for the new professor.
2.0A sheltered boy with a dream of starring on Broadway survives day-to-day life by imagining the world as a musical.
0.0A radio salesman gets knocked out by a golf ball and dreams he's in the desert where he sells radios to sheiks.
6.0An Israeli car and a Palestinian car are stuck in traffic in front of a barricade at the entrance of Jerusalem, coming from the Dead Sea. Yuval and Mahmoud, both seven years old boys, find its much more fun to pass the time playing with one another. But when Mahmoud's father tries to cut into the other's lane, Yuval's father bumps into his car in an attempt to prevent him, and things start to get complicated. What began as a game becomes an outright battle over a plastic Batman doll.
6.0A young father, his twelve-year-old daughter, a night club, two secrets and a lie that will solve everything.
0.0In October of 2022, two student filmmakers and a viral YouTube and Tik Tok sensation disappeared in the woods near Harrisville RI. This footage was found at the scene.
0.0Set in 1940s Nigeria, capturing the struggles of a young African girl. Funmi precariously straddles the different worlds of modernity and tradition. When Funmi's mother, a powerful market woman, insists on sending her to England for an education, Funmi goes reluctantly, knowing that the patriarchal traditions at home continue to oppress the market women. With the help of a strange African American angel, Funmi returns with the confidence of an educated young woman. But she soon finds that, even though she has changed, the oppression has remained the same. The film culminates in the moment when Funmi finally and fully faces the old challenges.
2.2Scientists have proven that there is a special emotional bond between a mother and a child. But do these forces of nature weaken over time...
0.0Griff's parents are concerned about his grandfather's influence when he sets up a tent in the yard.
0.0A heart-warming short film of two brothers and their relationship after their father's death.
5.0A man's repeated attempts to retrieve an apple off a high tree branch all prove fruitless. What does he want the apple for? That would be telling.
0.0Two seven years old boys ask God to fulfill their biggest wish and give them chewing gum. This film is based on a short story by Davíð Oddsson, the Prime Minister of Iceland 1991-2004.
0.0A young man hires a film crew to record him as he pursues his dream of becoming a serial killer.
